Pandesma submurina Walker, 1865
(previously known as : Michera submurina)
CATOCALINAE ,   NOCTUIDAE

Don Herbison-Evans ( donherbisonevans@yahoo.com )
&
Stella Crossley

(updated 5 February 2009)

Pandesma submurina
(Specimen: courtesy of the Macleay Museum, University of Sydney)

The caterpillars of this species are thought to feed on plants in the family FABACEAE.

The adult moth has brown forewings with indistinct darker markings, and buff coloured hindwings, each with a large dark spot near the tornus. It has a wing span of about 5 cms.

The species is found in :

  • New South Wales,
  • Northern Territory,
  • QueenslandWestern Australia.


    Further reading :

    Ian F.B. Common,
    Moths of Australia, Melbourne University Press, 1990, fig. 45.12, p. 451.


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